21st July, 2022
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has approved cut-off marks for universities and polytechnics in Nigeria.
140 cut-off mark was approved for universities while 120 was approved for polytechnics.
The decision was taken after a heated session on Thursday.
Those at the session include officials from JAMB, the Ministry of Education, the National Universities Commission, and the National Board for Technical Education among others.
However, JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, at the 2022 policy meeting, revealed that only 378,639 of the 1,761,338 who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations scored 200 and above.
Oloyede noted that 378,639 scored above 200; a total of 520,596 candidates scored 190 and above; 704,991 scored 180 and above; 934,103 scored 170 and above; 1,192, 057 scored 160 and above.
Speaking further, Oloyede noted that the board allowed candidates awaiting results to register for the 2022 UTME.
“JAMB allowed awaiting results candidates to register and sit for the 2022 UTME. These candidates can’t be considered for admission on awaiting result status. They must present their O’level results on the board’s portal before the commencement of admissions”.